How many more days till our trip? (I realised that I am starting to get jittery and asking this question more and more as the date edges closer!)
Or are you totally indifferent about this whole trip?
Well our last training took place at a very interesting location called "The Creek". It took me such a long time to find this place, even though I reached the correct building because I took the stairs and the first door I saw said "Utility Room" and the other was unlabelled. I thought I went to the wrong place! In the end, I had to call Shi Ting for help. (I called her twice just to get to this mysterious location.)
Finally, I found the lobby and took the lift up to the second storey. Surprising, the lift actually knew my name! "Miss Lee", it called out, as the doors opened. (That was rather creepy initially but I was later informed that it was simply announcing the name of the level and it was only a coincidence that it sounded like "Miss Lee".)
Well, even though it was called "The Creek", it was not a creek a all. (What a disappointment!)
Beside "The Creek" were other rooms with similarly interesting names such as "The Hive", "The Deep Blue" and "The Cove".
Well, it was already 9am so where is everyone? (Those who were late each owe me $3 okay? Except Cai Ping and Yuhau who came a while later and were so nice and bought me Milo! Thank you!) Poor me thought that I was either 1) was so blur as to venture into the wrong location despite clear instructions from Shi Ting, 2) remembered the wrong meeting time. If you saw my Tweets, you will know that I was in NTU since 7 plus am.
Slowly but surely, everyone else started arriving.
We started off with some administrative matters - the distribution of our beautiful Ecoventure booklet! So else designed it but the very talented Shi Ting from the Reporters Team! =)
We went through some important pages in the booklet. Don't forget to bookmark those pages!
Eco-Exhibition Presentation
Following that was the presentation. "Again?", you might ask. Well, not everyone has presented yet! In addition, for us, this is an extremely important segment of our Vietnam trip this year as it involves a sharing of our knowledge with other like-minded, environmentally-conscious university students there. After all, this is Earthlink.
Later in the day, Cindy dropped by for a visit again to see how we were doing. Oh wait, who is that beside Cindy?
Malik
It seems that we'll be having a new friend on our trip with us! Let's all welcome him warmly to our group!
There's no need to be too formal with us. We're all a very friendly bunch of people! ^^
"Cultural performance" - the two words alone are sufficient to start a throbbing headache. No offence to Cai Ping and Kenneth though, I know that they both worked very hard on this. We can all tell by the very good show put together by them - highly entertaining and extremely amusing. The students in Vietnam will definitely enjoy it too!
Therefore, both the Programmers Team and the Reporters Team have to work hard too! (We ARE working very hard, aren't we all! It's just that our talents lie elsewhere, like writing lame blog entries for example. XD)
Here's the Programmers Team and their Bollywood dance. Or rather, their attempt at Bollywood dancing. Just try not to fall over!
Here's our team at our attempts. Please give us some support!
Weird host, Kenneth, terrorising our two Malay friends, Siti and Aminah. Give them a break and don't start scaring them away! Otherwise, we're not going to have any performance from them!
Left: Yan Xin practising her "Five Stones" skills. We'll be introducing the game to our Vietnamese friends. =)
Right: Jun Wei giving it a try as well. What huge hands! It probably gives him some advantage. Not a fair game this is, is it?
As it was the last time we would be meeting before the actual day of departure, everyone was busy tying up the loose ends.
Here's everyone busy at work and me, busy brainstorming for new ideas for our performance plus taking photos of course!
It is heartening to see everyone working so hard, right Wan Ying? Don't you feel glad to have all of us here! XD
Till Saturday, when we meet again, here's some photos for you to enjoy that I took in NIE while I was on my way out. Please accept them as my apologies for leaving earlier as my dad was waiting already. ^^'
We may be heading off to another country but don't forget that Singapore is beautiful too. =)
Opps... Wrong photo! It's not what you think it is!
Take care and start packing! GO TEAM ECOVENTURE!
Apologies if I've missed out anyone in the photo!
We arrived in Vietnam in the evening, were greeted by our many friendly Vietnamese volunteers who have since come to become our close friends. After short introductions, as we were already running late, we hopped onto our bus and were headed for our hotel. Along the way, Hang introduced us to a brief history of Vietnam and the various landmarks we passed by along the way.
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